Ever wonder just how much manmade hardware is floating around the Earth at any given time? The simple answer to that question is, quite frankly – a lot. From working and defunct satellites, to pieces of space junk orbiting our blue sphere, it seems lucky that humans can launch anything new without crashing rockets into the space clutter.

Now thanks to graphic artist Michael Paukner we have an excellent illustration created with data from the Union of Concerned Scientists Satellite Database that shows just how much stuff is orbiting Earth on high. Not only that, Paukner’s picture also lets us know which country/organization put those items up there and whether those floating items are debris, a working satellite, or a broken one.

Looking at the illustration, it appears that the US, Russia and China are the biggest contributors to all the space junk out there orbiting Earth today. What is even more surprising, though, is the total number of countries that have objects up there. Makes one wonder at what point Earth needs a space garbage collection service.